The Golden Body Falls from Its Rank and Devours Heavenly Thunder

"Good heavens!"

"Three thousand li? Three thousand li! Has anything like this ever been recorded in ancient history?"

"No! Go back more than thirty Eras of Dao Strife, and the widest Dao Field ever recorded belonged to Clear Abyss Celestial Venerable of the former Blackwater Heavenly River Dao Sect. He opened a realm spanning twenty-four hundred li!"

"Three thousand strands of origin power. He walks the Yin-Yang Five Elements Dao, and now it seems he also cultivates the Innate Eight Trigrams Path. Mystic Yang Old Devil isn't some ancient cultivator, so how did he amass such vast resources? Could the fortunes he seized really have been enough?"

"Is that all you're counting? Is a three-thousand-li Dao Field the only thing that shocked us?"

"True. That glimmering bloodlight just now—was that the Blood Essence Path? Could Illuminating Truth, Upholding Clarity Dao Lord have been right? Did he really steal another sect's art?"

"Not necessarily. I just sent a message to a senior from my sect who fought in the Netherworld blood war. Apparently, a Dao Slave raised by Mystic Yang Old Devil appeared briefly when Fengdu Grotto-Heaven opened and they entered the Netherworld. Later, in one of the bloody battles, she killed the chief of the Blood Flame Divine Crow Clan. Looking at it now, that Dao Slave may well be a Blood Flame Divine Crow herself!"

"Hiss—so it's the forbidden art from back then?"

"If he can cultivate a forbidden art to this level, would every cultivator in the Southern Border combined be enough for him to kill?"

"Then what about all those splendid canopies formed from the Auspicious Fortune around him? If he slaughtered Human Race cultivators at will and piled up sins of murder, how could Auspicious Fortune descend upon him?"

"Hmm... Maybe he didn't kill people. My